Catch up

Thought I would post some pictures since I haven't done that in a while. I just really don't ever feel like blogging anymore. Today is my birthday and my husband took us out to breakfast and besides the screaming baby at our table who threw everything that I gave her to eat on the floor, it was a really nice breakfast. We sat outside because we knew she would disrupt everyone's breakfast inside the restaurant and the weather surprisingly was really nice. It was about 80 with a nice breeze, which is practically unheard of in South Florida at the end of August. After breakfast I came home with the kids and Riley made me pumpkin spice coffee (he's so cute because he really does know how to use the coffee maker. he counts out the scoops and everything) and then we had some pumpkin pie. She finally fell asleep while drinking her bottle at noon and Riley and I are going to do some reading and science stuff. Tonight I'm cooking up some lobster that Jesse caught in the Keys this weekend and some filet mignon with some baked potatoes and a Caesar salad with homemade dressing. YUM!!

Doesn't she look like she's getting ready to get into something?

This is the scream that I hear all day long!!!

Cutie Pie

Bee had a rough couple of weeks. She started getting in two more teeth, her bottom eye teeth, and she had a really hard time with them. On top of that she got roseola and had a really high fever. Then because she was refusing to eat any real food, she had some yucky poops. The last few days have been much better, but now that she is feeling better, the screaming has started again and it has escalated to the point where I just want to lock myself in my room with my headphones on. I really need to take a video of it and post it so you all don't think I'm just whining. If you were here and heard how loud and how constant it is you wouldn't think it was cute. It literally is her only method of communicating everything she feels. She screams when she is hungry, when she is angry, when she is tired, when she wants attention,when she's happy, when she wants anything, she screams. And while I know that meeting her needs is an important part of bonding, I also feel that giving her everything she wants when she wants them to stop the screaming will create bad habits. We tried the sign language but that just made her mad and frustrated because it was then taking longer for her to get what she wanted so she screamed more. So please, someone tell me how to make her stop screaming!!! Just don't tell me to give her what she is screaming for. We were in the car last night on the way to dinner and it was just every five seconds there was a blood curdling scream coming from the back seat, which makes it extremely hard to concentrate on driving. When we sat down to dinner, I could barely eat my pizza because I had to make sure they was always a piece of pizza waiting for her on my fork so she wouldn't scream. It really does make it difficult for me to want to be around her. She has also started to slap us in the face which makes me not want to hold her to close to me. I always rub her hands and arms and tell her "Nice hands" but when it continues, I just have to put her down on the floor. I just don't know what to do at this point. So any suggestions from you adoptive moms out there who have dealt with this is very much appreciated. Since she is asleep I am going to go hang out with my boy for some one on one time.